Gilbert Lascault (25 October 1934 – 19 December 2022) was a French novelist, essayist, and art critic.
Biography Lascault was born in Strasbourg on 25 October 1934. Agrégé of philosophy in 1960, Gilbert Lascault began writing his thesis,Published at , Paris, in 1973. « Le monstre dans l’art occidental » ("The monster in Western art"), an essay of aesthetics inaugurating his writings to come.Article de Évelyne Toussaint on the site Archives de la critique d'art. He discovered contemporary art by meeting Henri Michaux and Jean Dubuffet.
An engraver and calligrapher, Gilbert Lascault taught aesthetics and the philosophy of art at the Paris West University Nanterre La Défense (from 1988) then at the Sorbonne (since the second half of the 1990s), "proposing" seminars of uncertainty "to students and researchers in philosophy, art history and plastic arts".
A specialist in surrealism, he has published several books on this subject.
He has written in numerous magazines: Traverses, , L’Art Vivant, Artstudio, XXe, Beaux Arts Magazine, La Revue d’esthétique
For many years, he was one of the "pillars", of the program on France Culture, and has long participated in Panorama and . In 1995, he was the guest of honor of the Oulipo.
Lascault participated, as author, in the realization of a large number of artist's books with, in particular, Pierre Alechinsky, Marcel Alocco, , Eliz Barbosa, Cantié, Henri Cueco, , Ghislaine Escande, Nathalie Grall, Françoise Gründ, Philippe Hélénon, Joël Leick, Stanislav Marijanović, Marianne Montchougny, , Gaëlle Pelachaud, Denis Pouppeville, Antonio Seguí, Brigitte Tartière, , and .
Lascault wrote extensively on the works of artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Jean Tinguely, Pierre Alechinsky, Jean Le Gac, Vladimir Veličković, Coco Téxèdre, , , Anne and Patrick Poirier, , , Henri Cueco, Christian Boltanski, Leonardo Cremonini, and Bang Hai Ja....
From 4 May 2005, he was at the chair of Teratoscopy & Dinography.
In 2014, the of Issoudun devoted a large retrospective exhibition « Les chambres hantées de Gilbert Lascault ».
Lascault died on 19 December 2022, at the age of 88.
Publications 1963: Le Monstre dans l'art occidental, 1969: Esthétique et psychanalyse, in La Psychanalyse, collectif, éd.: S.G.P.P.; series "Le point de la question" 1975: Un monde miné, 1976: Enfances choisies, Christian Bourgois 1976: With Gianfranco Baruchello, Alphabet d'Éros, Paris, Ed. Galilée 1977: Figurées, défigurées : petit vocabulaire de la féminité représentée, Union générale d’édition (UGE), series , Paris 1977: Un îlot tempéré, Christian Bourgois 1979: Écrits timides sur le visible, UGE, 10/18, Paris 1979: Voyage d'automne et d'hiver, Christian Bourgois 1981: La destinée de Jean Simon Castor, Christian Bourgois 1981: Boucles et nœuds, 1982: Alexandre Bonnier - Autour d'images et d'écrits, Editions Shakespeare International 1982: Un herbier pour Marinette 1983: Encyclopédie abrégée de l'empire vert, Maurice Nadeau 1983: Marmottes à l'imparfait (illustrations by Jan Voss), Ryōan-ji 1983: Arrondissements (illustrations by Pierre Alechinsky ), Repères 1984: Coutume des Vents, illustrations by , éd. Fata Morgana, Montpellier 1984: Malaval, Art Press/Flammarion 1985: Faire et défaire, éd. Fata Morgana, Montpellier 1985: Éloges à Geneviève, novel, Balland 1985: Francis Limérat and Jean-Pierre Vielfaure - Les arpenteurs de l'utopie, parcours, Éditions du C.A.C. Pablo-Neruda, Corbeil-Esonnes 1986: La Grande Forêt Alquin, illustrations by Nicolas Alquin, éd. Le Salon d’Art, Brussels 1986: Les amours d'Arthur-toujours-là et de Monica-Belle-de-Givre, illustrations by Petra Werlé, Baby Lone, Strasbourg 1986: Consanguins d'Omènes, illustrations by Janko Stanovnik, éd. Tropismes 1987: Jeux d’échecs – Jeu de guerres, illustrations by Nicolas Alquin, éd. L’Échoppe, Caen 1987: 420 minutes dans la cité des ombres, éd. Ramsay, Caen 1989: Le petit chaperon rouge, partout, 1992: Jour de désert, illustrations by Nicolas Alquin, éd. L’Échoppe 1998: Le Ieel bleu, with eight lithographs by Lascault (16 copies printed) ... 2014: Les Chambres hantées, Tarabuste éditions
See also Collège de 'Pataphysique Artist's book Oulipo
References
External links Gilbert Lascault on Babelio "Les chambres hantées" de Gilbert Lascault au musée Saint-Roch d'Issoudun Gilbert Lascault, "au royaume du visible joyeux" on Le Monde (15 May 2008) Gilbert Lascault lit "Histoires en forme de trèfle" (1990) on YouTube Article by Évelyne Toussaint on the site Archives de la critique d'art Gilbert Lascault on France Culture Gilbert Lascault on La Nouvelle quinzaine littéraire